Siddons v. Edmonston
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing on appeals by defendants in consolidated actions from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia restraining defendants in No. 2728 from interfering with plaintiff in conducting baseball games in his park on Sunday and from a judgment directing defendant in No. 2729 to issue a license to plaintiff for such days of the week as he might request.
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Hearing on appeals by defendants in consolidated actions from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia restraining defendants in No. 2728 from interfering with plaintiff in conducting baseball games in his park on Sunday and from a judgment directing defendant in No. 2729 to issue a license to plaintiff for such days of the week as he might request. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: The first of these appeals is from a decree in the supreme court of the District restraining the defendants, Frederick L. Siddons, Oliver P. Newman, and Chester Harding, their…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bobb
The jurisdiction of the court to grant the relief prayed is not. denied, provided it be found, as matter of law, that the appellee was entitled to the license. The sole question with which we .are concerned, therefore, is whether he was entitled to such license.
Sunday legislation has been known to the world for more than fifteen centuries, having originated in Borne in a. d. 321, when Constantine the Great issued an edict commanding all judges and inhabitants of cities to rest on that day. Carver v. State, 69 Ind. 61, 35 Am. Rep. 205; Campbell v. International Life Assur. Soc. 4 Bosw. 298.…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Church of the Holy Trinity v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Hennington v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- District of Columbia v. BrookeSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Petit v. MinnesotaSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Ex parte NewmanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1858
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3Cited by4 opinions
- La Forest v. Board of CommissionersCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1937
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- La Forest v. Board of CommissionersCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1937